Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

A live concert featuring the best of Broadway duets featuring special performances by Michael A Pizzi, Marc Benard, and Laura Yen Solito! Another Sandhills Repertory gem.

Come see local boy turned Broadway star Bradley Gibson as he's joined by his equally talented husband Adam Hyndman in a holiday review on the very Sunrise stage where he performed in his first play.

SunLive starts their fourth season with Neal Simon's touching Brighton Beach Memoirs. Watch as an all community cast brings this seminal work to life.

Please join us for our annual live theatre fundraiser: Broadway Baby! Contestants will perform Broadway hits vying for the title “Broadway Baby.” Instead of having judges, the Sunrise invites YOU to choose the winner. With your $15 admission, you will receive five tickets to vote for your favorite performer. Additional voting tickets are available for purchase at the event. At the end of the night, the performer with the most tickets will be crowned the winner!

The Sunrise Theater is hosting a fundraising event for future live theatre productions. Come see young performers between the ages of 8 and 15 perform Broadway hits vying for the title “Broadway Baby Jr.” It’s one part Broadway revue and one part American Idol! Instead of having judges, the Sunrise invites YOU to choose the winner. With your $15 admission, you will receive five tickets to vote for your favorite performer. Additional voting tickets are available for purchase at the event. At the end of the night, the performer with the most tickets will be crowned the winner! The event will be emceed by Sunrise stage directors, Jessie Dietzel and Amy Damone. “We are so excited to bring Broadway Baby Jr. to the stage!” says Jessie Dietzel. “It’s one of our favorite events of the season so being able to have the kids shine in this one is such a joy and honor!” Proceeds from the event will go to help fund future live theatre events at the Sunrise Theater. While currently in rehearsals for The Odd Couple beginning on May 10th, the Sunrise has three more productions this year with The Sound of Music in August, The Importance of Being Earnest in October, and a radio play written by Sunrise Theater Operations Manager and playwright, Katie Collins, Time and a Half in December.

Come join us for the Christmas Tree Lighting followed by everybody's favorite Elf!

Come see Shakespear as you've never seen him before Director Amanda Villani takes on some of the best scenes from Shakespeare and gives them new life in this compilation piece closing out SunLive's fourth season.

A father seeks the help of his adult daughter to raise his young twins after his second wife leaves him.

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Join the incomparable Murphy family as they celebrate the Holidays on the sunrise stage!

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

The Main Squeeze is coming to the Sunrise! Don't miss this opportunity to see one of the hottest funk bands stateside.

Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, and tenor Piotr Beczała is the soldier Radamès—completing opera’s greatest love triangle. The all-star cast also features baritone Quinn Kelsey as Amonasro and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy as Ramfis. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus Dietrich, in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling sings the principled Don Fernando, and Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife and mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive, Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

The Met made history in December 2006 when it presented its first Live in HD transmission to cinemas worldwide: the abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor’s whimsical production features a winning ensemble—including tenor Matthew Polenzani, baritone Nathan Gunn, and bass René Pape—and returns to select movie theaters for a special encore presentation during the holiday season.

Extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the volatile diva Floria Tosca for her first time at the Met. David McVicar’s thrilling production also features tenor Freddie De Tommaso in his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse baritone Quinn Kelsey as the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.

Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year.

Time and a Half is a radio drama by local playwright Katie Ashlyn Collins. Follow Rose and Mary as they work through the holidays at a small wedding when the bride walks out causing the wedding planners to work over time trying to salvage their paychecks. And be there for another human.

Watch as SunLive's community group brings Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock to Life. Watch along as Dewey Flinn teaches an uptight private school class how to rock out!